Events

Join us Thursday, March 28 for a very special Crucial Conversation luncheon --
North Carolina’s 2019 education budget: The perspective from the Governor’s mansion
Featuring State Budget Director Charles Perusse and Senior Advisor to the Governor, Ken Eudy

Gene Nichol has produced a vitally important new book summarizing his work in recent years to document the vexing poverty that continues to plague North Carolina - "The Faces of Poverty: Stories From Our Invisible Citizens (UNC Press, 2018).

Join us for a very special Crucial Conversation luncheon: Prof. Peter Edelman discusses his new book, Not a Crime to be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America Register here In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the ...

As veteran state education policy analyst Kris Nordstrom detailed in his recent report, The Unraveling—Poorly-crafted Education Policies Are Failing North Carolina’s Children, North Carolina has lost its way when it comes to public schools:

Join us on Tuesday December 5, as we welcome American Immigration Council Executive Director Beth Werlin to North Carolina and hear her update on (and assessment of) the immigration battles in Washington.

Crucial Conversation – North Carolina’s independent judiciary: Will it survive the current partisan battle? Register here There is an unprecedented war underway over the future of the North Carolina’s judiciary. For some time now, conservative supermajorities in the ...

NC Policy Watch presents a special Crucial Conversation luncheon: Hurricane Matthew one year later:
What happened, what hasn’t and how can we do better in the future?
On October 8, 2016, Hurricane Matthew made landfall on North Carolina. The resulting flooding impacted 50 counties in the eastern part of the state, damaging more than 800,000 homes and over 300,000 businesses, while displacing 3,744 residents, and causing closures in 34 school systems. In all, the storm caused $2.8 billion in damages and another $2 billion in lost economic activity.

For those too young or too new to North Carolina to remember, the horrific 1991 chicken plant fire at imperial Foods in Hamlet, North Carolina killed 25 workers and injured another 55. Workers were unable to escape the blaze because the plant’s owner, Emmett J. Roe, kept the doors padlocked and the windows boarded because he thought his low-wage workers might steal chicken.